Reviews

Great location, room, and staff. The hotel is walking distance to everything in downtown Indianapolis. The room was large, clean, and had an adjustable bed. The staff were courteous. If we ever go back to Indianapolis, we will stay here again and recommend it to anyone.— Jasmine Talameh

Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown

Hotel Energy Green Practices

Memberships

Indianapolis Green Business Network – Member

Central Indiana Clean Air Partnership – Gold Member

Indianapolis Downtown Inc, Cleaning Partnership

Lighting & Energy Management

CFL in 100% of all guestrooms, and corridors, 85% of all public areas.

Energy management and recovery system which alerts for inefficiencies, and uses a recovery wheel to recoup conditioned air, and account for outside environmental changes.

4.05 kw Solar Array deployed on the top of our 16 story building making it one of the largest in Indianapolis. Check out the link on the right hand side of the page to view the energy production from the panel.

Voluntary Guest conservation program – we will change sheets and towels every three days for each individual guest unless they notify us otherwise. This has cut our total daily laundry load dramatically with the effect of cutting our water consumption as well.

Proctor and Gamble Tide – less harsh on environment with less bleach add to reduce the impact on environment. www.greenguarantee.com

According to the EPA, recycling provides an annual benefit of 49.7 million metric tons of carbon equivalent emissions reduced, comparable to removing 39.4 million passenger cars from the road each year.

Interestingly, items diverted for recycling don’t always remain in the United States. The number one U.S. export by volume is scrap paper, which travels by container ships to Asia and Mexico. Scrap metal was also among our most valuable exports last year.

The scrap paper does help these nations conserve more of their forests, but as a result we lose some of ours. America’s southeastern forest – what Hershkowitz calls “the most biologically diverse forest in the world” – is still being used to make paper.

“That’s the downside of our paper exports, that we are not replacing the destruction of southeast forests with recycled fiber,” he said.

From National Geographic.com

We continue to look for ways to reduce our carbon footprint and lessen our impact on the environment. There are clearly more things we could and possibly should be doing. We welcome any suggestions on what else we might be able to implement.